AI Study Companion
Members can connect an AI app (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and others) to their Smarty PANCE account. You choose to connect, sign in with your Smarty PANCE login, and can disconnect anytime at smartypance.com/ai-connect/ or in the AI app.
The AI app can see only your own study data that you ask about (such as QBank accuracy and the questions, flashcards and PEARLS you request), never payment details or other members' data.
We keep an account-linked operational log of which study tool ran, when it ran, how it was accessed, and whether it succeeded. We use this log to prevent abuse and troubleshoot problems, and it is scheduled for removal after 30 days. It does not contain your full chat prompts, answer text, tool responses or AI conversations.
To run practice questions and custom quizzes or exams, we also keep study-session data: question identifiers, topic labels, the answer letters you select, whether those answers were correct, and your place in the review. A single practice question expires after 6 hours and can be graded only once. Custom review sessions are set to expire 8 hours after their last saved update, such as an answer or finishing the review, so finishing a review does not immediately erase its session data.
We also keep the identifiers of up to 150 recently served questions in your account so you see fewer repeats, the link between your membership and your QBank account, and a short-lived cache of your recent performance so the personalized study tools work. These records are separate from the 30-day operational log.
If you build a Gemini Notebook study pack, we keep the file for one hour behind a private download link, along with a count of how many packs you have built that day so we can apply the daily limit. Once you download the file and add it to Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM), Google handles it under its own privacy policy.
We do not record your full AI conversations. Your conversation is handled by the AI company you chose, under its own privacy policy.
If your PA program licenses Smarty PANCE, your program director can connect an AI app to the Program Portal only after turning on AI access for your cohort.
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Added October 26, 2026. Updated November 5, 2026.